What we do have are 14 electronic drum sounds :Bass, Snare, toms, rimshot, closed hi hats, open hi
hats, ride, crash, claps, cowbell, tambourine and cabasa.
The sounds are all 12 bit samples. Additional
sounds can be added using ROM cards. You can used these cards on the Korg DDD-1. There are two ROM slots.

The drum sounds though basic can be edited: tuning and decay.
The fader gives access to a two octave tuning range. By tweaking the sound parameters (pitch and decay) some nice
and weird percussion sounds can be achieved easily. There are also Roll and Flam effects.

There are two different modes: Programmable Mode and
Preset Mode. The DDD-5 actually came with two interchangeable front
panels for both these modes.

It has
MIDI and analog tape sync.So you can use it to
sync a midi sequencer to an analog tape machine!! I might just use this one day.

This is what the drum looks like with the panel removed.

I've heard that Nine Inch Nails used this drum at the end of one of their tracks from "the
fragile"CD (Though this is not substantiated).

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